Wishing and Kathy, do you have wind? Geez O Pete! Blowing a gale here! My 12X20 shade canopy in the dog yard went flying! I'm parasailing trying to hang on to it while the wind is whipping, the top was coming apart...I was afraid to let go to go get tools! DH heard me hollering. Here he saunters, laughing. Jerk. It was pretty funny...

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No, just a little breezy. I live at the base of a curved high ridge in the coastal mountains. It has to really be blowing hard to affect us. Hope you get your canopy back together. I don't like the wind much. Always makes my ears hurt. And my hair frizzy.

I had to look up optical rectitis. If candy corn can cure it, I'd even eat a couple pieces (yuck). But just a couple.

Seasonal affective disorder. When the daylight gets short, I get depressed.

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Me too, if my regular depression isn't bad enough then fall comes around & throws me for a loop. Part of the reason I started into chickens was that my daughter had gotten married & moved with my gd 2 hours away. I went from taking care of her full time since she came home from the hospital to a weekend here & there. It put me in severe depression. Because of health problems I don't work outside of the home so when I no longer felt like I was needed I couldn't crawl out from under the depression. Fall was just around the corner & my SAD was kicking in too. That's when I came up with the idea of chickens. The rest is history, between my gardens, farm stand, canning & my birds they help keep my sanity lol. OK, now everyone knows my life history

Same thing here CL. I can't get out in my garden like I used to. Chickens and ducks are very entertaining, I love watching them. I met all of you new friends on here because of the birds and I can't wait to see what you all have been up to.